St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-22
PLEA FOR THE IRISH.
Archbishop Lynch Makes an Appeal
to Lord Churchill,
Asking His Good Offices on Behalf OF
Suffering Erin.

NEW YORK, March 21.-The Herald
this morning published the following letter
from Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, to
Lord Randolph Churchill:
'You must recollect prelate from Can
ada who paid visit 10 the Vice Regal Lodge
at Dublin in 1879 TO thank your venerable
mother the Duchess OF Marlborough for
starving Irish. had the honor then Of u
short acquaintance with your lord
ship. On that occasion predicted
you would be come great states
man. The twinkling of your brilliant rise,
| however, portrayed you would be a little
| FESTIVE for a few ears. i have assiduously
| watched your course since then, sometimes
| with regret (Belfast) at OH er times with joy,
but always with great hope. The motives Of
| your resigning a very honorable an important
| post In the cabinet of England proved the
| honor, valor and self-respect of great mind.
| Your motive. too appears to be fiat justita
ruat coelum." On this noble disposition OF
yours depend much. Now, my dear Lord
| Randolph, the object of this letter is TO beg
you to study the Irish question, root and
branch, not in the spirit of porty, but Of JUS
| tice to all mon. / am confident from your
/ character Of uprightness and honor that you
| will, even for this once, join Mr.. Gladstone
| and bring poace and prosperity 10 Ireand
! and effect more stable union between En-
gland and Ireland. Your lordship caunot nut
| feel the disgraceful contradiction involved in
| the present attitude Of the British parliament
| toward Ireland and no wonder you are away
! from il at present. On the other hand, i'd
hitting the injustice Of the
LANDLORDS EXACTIONS
and the utter III q bliity CT the tenants to meet
! them lin consequence OF the prices of pro-
duce), the British house passes law appoint
ing commission TO regulate rents which re-
| suits in their being reduced in many in-
! stances TO one-haf or onethird of their for
mer amount. On the other baud, the machin-
! cry of that tribunal being so cumbersome
| and slow, that fifty yeurs would scarcely
| suffice Tor the hearing of all the cases the
| landlords are awaiting themselves of this delay
| and are pushing eviciions by wholesale and the
| British parliament stultifying itself, prosti-
tutes the power of the law, which should be
sacred by granting the aid of police and SOL
dery to assist sheriffs and bailiffs n evictiug
| thousands Of unfortunate people, young ana
| old, in the most Inclement season of the year,
amid the screams and cries of starving
women and children, and the curses of Ell
ragged men, thus helping the landlords 10
exact rents which the court appointed by the
government had in parallel cases pronounced
unfagrantly unjust. Does this accord with
the true philosophy of just and legitimate
government. Cannot even the children Of
| Ireland see the double dealing and false posi-
ton OF their rulers, whose laws
| should command respect, not contempt?
When authority stultfes itself peo-
pie will not be pursuaded 10 re-
itself as to command the respect OF all right
! minded men. There should not be- in the
| government of Ireland. such mean deception
us condemniDg the landlords tor eXacting eX-
orbitant rates and then lending them all the
| force of British hayonets and rifles to exact
| these rents. Whom the gods wish TO destroy
| they stultify." The rule of injustice is
| hard and hopeless task. Let the landlords
| receive fair rent not oppressive, and let
| them restore to the poor tenants the over
| mistakable signs in England of a growing
| volcano, which trust English prudence will
| avert. The embers have been very unwisely
| fostered there. To fete Garibaldi and COM
pany is to
CANONIZE REVOLUTION
in the worst form. Will the time ever come
when insularity will begin TO have some re-
| gard for the honest public opinion of the
world, civilized as we'll rs unciviiized, which
| is to-day Mortified at the news OF the inhu-
man spectacle OF evictions whose only equiv
| aients, according to England's greatest
statesmen of past or modern times, are
death warrants? How the English journals
would, with hypooritical zeal, gloat over and
| publish the inhuInanity of such deeds if
! these horrible deeds were perpetrated by q
| Catholic government. How the pope would
| be called monster of iniQuity. Il murderer
| OF his people, and to be dealt with as such IL
| during his temporal power he had permitted
| one townsland to be depopulated. Such
|
heard of under the British crown. Signs OF
| high civilization forsooth! Her most gra-
! clous majesty need not be grateful to her
responsible ministers for disgracing her
! otherwise glorious reign of fifty years by pc
| riodical oppression OF the poor and starving
| Irish, and finishing it up by more than savage
| acts of cruelty and the violation OF all true
| laws and order. ! shall pass over TO the fear
full prosecutions inflicted on the Irish for con-
| science sake. But the ruins of our churches,
mo nnli hNSl f-.1-
| stud the land, are the stern witnesses to all
| future generations Of the worse than pagan
| crueties pra cticed on the Catholic Irish to
| rob them of their faith. Conscience triumphs
| in the end. Now let us take another view OF
the Irish wrongs. The Irish element in the
| United States is becoming more aud more
powerful. Your English papers sometimes
remark when q statesman in this country
speaks disparagingly of England that he is
| trying to catch the Irish vote" BY that they
| acknowledge that
THE IRISH VOTE
is great factor in America, and the same
| may be said of Australia, and other English
| speaking countries where the Iris h cOngre-
gate and multiply and prosper. Hence you
| must conclude that numbers will tell, and the
combined Irish are powerful lug redient in
| the government of this country, and the
power of their organizations is increasing
every day. They hold already the balance OF
power in the presidential and other elections
This is beyond dispute. You may judge of
| their temper from the tone which Americans
take in the present fishery dispute. 1t is said
| that we in Canada live under the British flag
| by the liberation of the United States. When
there was question of eulisting volunteers
for our Defense one of our chief Statesmen
said: What use in this expense Z" The
| chief guard of five millions of people
will be good behavior. But good be-
| havior means now, il appears, let the
! Americans do as they like. English forces
| are distant. Better are good neighbors near
| than blood relations at a distance Let us
| finish, my dear lord, this, perhaps, too long
| letter by impioring You again and again 10
| help your country, England, out OF the murky
chaos in which she is and induce her to do
! Justice at length to Ireland. Ill treatment and
calGmnies will never reconcile former friends
and foes. Union is strength, and the condition
| of the Irish at home and abroad does not add
| TO the strength or honor of England. We must
not forget how the great Roman emperor fell.
| England is not beyond the reach of eternal
| justice. have the honor TO subscribe my
self with the highest consideration, your lord
ships devoted servant,
JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH,
Archbishop of Toronto.
st. Michaels Palace, Toronto, Canada,
March, 1887.
An Heir Tnrns UP.